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Provides a comprehensive catalog of the various adaptations of L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wizard of Oz", describing the books, films, music videos, stage productions, games, and other variations of the story.

Provides students and teachers with six hundred ideas for term papers related to twentieth-century world history and lists thousands of print and nonprint sources on the events that shaped twentieth-century world history.

Indexes 556 folktale collections and 389 picture books, by motif, tale title, subject, and ethnicity and geography in an attempt to provide brief descriptions of variants in juvenile folktales; covering titles published between 1960 and 1980.

Offers K-12 teachers and librarians a wide range of materials and activity ideas designed to help students learn twelve character-building virtues, including empathy, respect, courage, humor, loyalty, and honesty.

A guide to 12,000 titles cataloged under 700 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.

Explains the various steps which go into determining a book's reading level and offers librarians advice on how they can use book levels to create age-appropriate programs for their patrons.

Contains classroom activities for thirty-six Newbery Medal and Honor books from 1990 to 1999, each including a plot summary, author profile, a book clip, curriculum connection ideas, bibliographic data, and additional reading suggestions.